Sentences with phrase «open young star clusters»

During the first close approach just prior to four billion years in the future, the sky is ablaze with new star formation, which is evident in vast numbers of emission nebulae and open young star clusters (Image: NASA / STScI)

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The collection of very bright, young stars above and to the right of Eta Carinae is the open star cluster Trumpler 14.

Astrophysics observations with K2 will include studies of young open clusters, bright stars, galaxies, supernovae, and asteroseismology.

The density waves first concern interstellar matter, which is compressed, forms diffuse nebulae which become starforming regions, and later form (open) clusters and associations of young stars, the most lumionous and conspicuous of which are massive, hot, blue and short - lived.

The young open cluster NGC 6530 associated with the Lagoon Nebula M8 was classified as of Trumpler type «II 2 m n» (see e.g. the Sky Catalog 2000), meaning that it is detached but only weakly concentrated toward its center, its stars scatter in a moderate range of brightness, it is moderately rich (50 — 100 stars), and associated with nebulosity (certainly, with the Lagoon nebula).

Open clusters are distributed in the Galaxy very similarly to young stars.

The models include a new wind braking law based on recent numerical simulations of magnetized stellar winds and specific dynamo and mass - loss prescriptions a... ▽ More We present new models for the rotational evolution of solar - like stars between 1 Myr and 10 Gyr with the aim to reproduce the distributions of rotational periods observed for star forming regions and young open clusters within this age range.

We compare model predictions to the distributions of rotational periods measured for low mass stars belonging to star forming regions and young open clusters.

The spiral arms of our Milky Way contain interstellar matter, diffuse nebulae, and young stars and open star clusters emerging from this matter.

The Trapezium Cluster is among the very youngest (open) clusters known, with new stars still forming in this region.